Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-20
THE RAILROADS.
jay Gould and Party Invited to Spend
Several Days in the City
and will Come.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Cash
Paying Corporation-steel for
the Tt xas and Pacific.
Home Notes.

Jay Gould will probably arrive in Fort
Worth to-day.
Trainmaster Judy leaves for q trir
over the Fort Worth and Rio Grande this
morning.
Ten car loads of steel rails were re,
ceived by the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
yesterday.
Trainmaster Judy thinks Strawn coal
will be brought TO Fort Worth for sale in
three or four days.
Mr.. Leigh, engineer for the Houston
and Texas Central, is in the city looking
out way for the Fort Worth and New
Orleans to come into the city.
The Texas and Pacific is proud Of the
record she has made on the Rio Grande
division. Not a passenger car wheel has
been off the track for over year past.
Steel to lay sixty-five miles of track on
the Rio Grande division is in the yards at
Fort Worth and on the cars at New Or
leans, ready for transportation. The
track will be all steel TO Weatherford in a
few days.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail
way has steel rails laid within three miles
of Fort Worth, and will by Saturday
night have it built into Fort Worth.
They will then have steel rails from
Gainesville to Galveston.
Vice-President w. W. H. Lawrence,
some time ago wrote to Albany citizens
in regard to proposition to build the
Fort Worth Western to that city The
citizens have agreed to give right of way
through Shackelford county, twenty acres
for depot grounds and bonus. The en-
gineers have been instructed 10 run the
preliminary line to Albany at once.
Yesterday Capt. B. B. Paddock, presi-
dent of the Fort Worth anu Rio Grande,
for himself and number of citizens, tele-
grsphed to Jay Gould that Fort Worth
would be glad to have himself and party
spend two days or more il this city as its
guests. Later in tie day Capt. Paddock
received the following reply: MANY
thanks for your kind invitation. | hope
to visit Fort Worth bef> re my return, but
as have a good deal TO do and see IN
Texas, my stay will necessarily be short.
(Signed) JAY GOULD"
Col. Lawrence of the Fort Worth
Western leaves for New York Saturday
on important business connected with
his road, and will return with the direct
ors of the company. Col. Lawrence tele
graphed the committee, which was
ready to start for Fort Worth,
to postpone their trip until he cou
come to New York as he had something
he wished to submit to the entire board,
and then the committee could carry out
the matter more fully on their arrival in
Fort Worth. Col. Lawrence says they
will leave New York wi n him on January
27.
President Paddock stated 10 GAZETTE
reporter last night that all rumOrs that
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande failed to
pay its bills or that anyone had trouble in
collecting what was due them, were false
and unfounded. He says that all engines,
cars, ETC., bought, were paid for spot
cash: that men at work on the grade are
paid monthly in cash, dollar for dollar
and that only when men stop volun-
tarily before pay day, the goth of
the month, are they given time
checks which are paid on the goth in full,
When men are discharged for any reason
before the regular pay day they are paid
in tull and not kept waiting. The cap
tain spoke very plainly about the matter,
and conversation with employees elected
from them the statement that they had
always obtained their money promptly
dollar for dollar when due.